For the July 2021 Quiz, we’re visiting 40 of the greatest museums in the world. Summer is traditionally the time for vacations and if we aren’t quite ready to be world travelers again, we can dream of the places we will go. What international vacation would be complete without visiting at least one museum? What will you see on your visit? We’ve selected 40 items from museums around the world. Can you match the painting*, sculpture, artifact, or interesting fact with the museum it calls home? Place the number I’ve randomly assigned to each museum in the blank provided.

*Some paintings are part of a series of paintings of the same or similar names that are in different museums or private collections. I’ve matched each museum to a specific painting in the series and I apologize in advance for any confusion.

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1.     Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington

2.     Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires

3.     Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil

4.     National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

5.     Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem

6.     Instituto Ricardo Brennand in Recife, Brazil

7.     Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

8.     The Getty Center in Los Angeles

9.     The National WWII Museum in New Orleans

10.  Pergamon Museum in Berlin

11.  Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence

12.  The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

13.  The British Museum in London

14.  The Vasa Museum in Stockholm

15.  Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

16.  The Acropolis Museum in Athens

17.  The National Gallery in London

18.  Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid

19.  State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg

20.  The Musée du Louvre in Paris

21.  The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, China

22.  Museo Larco in Lima

23.  The Art Institute of Chicago

24.  Musée D'Orsay in Paris

25.  Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City

26.  The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

27.  Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

28.  Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

29.  The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo

30.  The National Palace Museum in Taipei

31.  Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands

32.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

33.  Tate Modern in London

34.  National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa

35.  Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town

36.  National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

37.  The National Art Center in Tokyo

38.  Bangkok National Museum

39.  Museum of the Royal Tombs of Sipán in Chiclayo, Peru

40.  Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal

The Jack Pine by Tom Thomson ______

Sculpture of Ovonramwen being exiled ______

This museum displays a 17th century 64-gun warship – the only almost intact one ever salvaged ______

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci ______

Peaceable Kingdom (c. 1834) by Edward Hicks – (one of the 61 paintings in The Peaceable Kingdom series) ______

This museum exhibits the most important archaeological remains of the Mochica Culture. ______

Irises by Vincent Van Gogh ______

The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso ______

The Dancing Class by Edgar Degas ______

La maja desnuda (The Nude Maja) by Francisco Goya ______

Michelangelo’s sculpture, David _______

Windows Open Simultaneously (First Part, Third Motif) by Robert Delaunay ______

This museum has the world’s largest specimen of the rare colossal squid _______

Self Portrait by Vincent Van Gogh ______

Waterfall in the Forest (Cachoeira na Floresta) by Frans Post ______

The Early Spring, by Guo Xi ______

This museum was built over top of an archaeological site; its floor has several glass panels to show the excavations below. ______

The Market Gate of Miletus _______

This Museum has an extensive collection of Khon Masks ______

The Sea at L’Estaque by Paul Cézanne ______

Madonna of the Meadow by Raphael ______

There is a portion of Atlantic Wall on display on the campus of this museum ______

The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt ______

Waterfall (Von prora nach Oostende) by Franz Ackerman ______

The Gold Mask of Tutankhamun ______

This Museum houses the world’s largest collection of erotic ceramics. ______

Behold Thy Son by David Driskell ______

The Stone of Tizoc ______

Jacob’s Ladder or Jacob’s Dream by William Blake ______

You will find The Hall of Names in this Museum. ______

Jazz by Noemi Ruiz ______

Instead of maintaining a permanent collection, this facility, with 14,000 square meters of exhibition space, is a venue for various art exhibitions, outreach activities through its educational programs, and an Art Library to collect and disseminate information related to art. ______

The Yellow House by Vincent Van Gogh ______

Over 7,000 pottery soldiers, horses, chariots, and weapons from the Qin Dynasty have been unearthed at this museum site. ______

The Mercury Friendship 7 spacecraft ______

The largest museum of contemporary African Art in the world. ______

The Love Letter by Jan Vermeer ______

Femme au Chapeau (Woman with a Hat) by Henri Matisse ______

Juanito Laguna Going to the Factory by Antonio Berni ______

Self Portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn ______ 

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